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A blue and white stem bowl A blue and white pear-shaped bottle vase
Xuande six-character mark, early 18th century Qianlong
Vibrantly painted in underglaze blue with characteristic ‘heaping and Painted with detailed Indian lotus blooms borne on a foliate scroll vine
piling’, the exterior with five figures in an enclosed garden scene below the Eight Buddhist Emblems, surmounted by a wide border of
framed by clouds, the stem painted with scrolling lotus flowers stiff upright lappets divided by a ruyi-head band, all beneath a collar of
between key-fret borders, stand. swirling waves under the rim.
15.5cm (6 1/8in) diam. (2). 37.8cm (14 7/8in) high

£4,000 - 6,000 CNY40,000 - 59,000 £6,000 - 10,000 CNY59,000 - 99,000
HK$50,000 - 75,000 HK$75,000 - 130,000

十八世紀初 青花庭園女仕圖高足碗 青花「大明宣德年製」楷書款 清乾隆 青花纏枝蓮托八吉祥紋扁肚瓶

Provenance 來源: R. & G.McPherson Ltd., London (label) Provenance 來源: R. & G. McPherson Ltd., London
Roy Davids Collection, no.32, acquired on 27 February 2007 Roy Davids Collection, no.123

A bowl with a very similar design of ladies in a garden scene, Kangxi Compare a related bottle vase, but without the Eight Buddhist
mark and period, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures Emblems, in the Nanjing Museum, Qianlong seal mark and of the
of the Palace Museum Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red period illustrated in Treasures in the Royalty: The Official Kiln Porcelain
(III), 36, Beijing, 2000, no.65. of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p.233.

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